Originally Posted By: JustinH
An honest mechanic is worth his weight in gold to me.
I had a guy in New York who would do work out of a little warehouse that he rented with two lifts.
He would show me what needed done and what did not need to be done. Saved me a lot of money when I lived in an apartment and couldn't work on a car.
I stopped dealing with my local toyota dealer, they are too annoying. Offering me nonsense that I do not need over and over again. Then the sales guy will call me every 6 months just to chat about the car. He even called on my birthday to thank me for buying the car, like we were buddies.
The parts department at my dealer has poor service and nobody knows what is going on. I started ordering everything from Rockauto and amazon, including fluid and I cut them out.
What's funny is that these idiots ($tealerships) are their own worst enemies at least in the long run because they drive away the very customers claim they want to keep for the long run from sales to service. It's really insane. I tried out another local Honda dealer because I wasn't happy with the quality of the local independents around here lots of poor work and shadiness! (not in CT another state)and sure enough after doing a specific job which I knew what exactly needed to be done to stop an oil leak, the place gave me back the car with YET ANOTHER OIL LEAK! That was NOT there BEFORE I took it in, I checked every inch of the engine carefully, and they were suggesting that it was the result of a possible HG, or rear main seal! Well I told them NOTHING MORE was going to be done and left immediately after paying a lot of money for my repair.
Turns out that the leaking was actually left over residue from the repair I had done, and possibly they poured some oil over the block as well ( It looked like they did as there was no reason for that much to be there seeing that they should have used brake kleen or washed the repair area to make sure it was clean and free of a leak....A few weeks later no more oil dripping because there WAS NO OTHER OIL LEAK.
Instead of that dealer getting a long term loyal customer that would have earned them thousands of more dollars, they got a one time payment for work and they will NEVER SEE ME AGAIN AS A CUSTOMER!
